MRS Leaders Forum - Recruitment, Team & Culture

08.30 09.00

Registration & coffee

09.00-09.10

Introduction from the Chair

09.10-09.40

Panel: Doing recruitment differently

• Recruitment in the post covid era: balancing needs of employer with needs of employees
• What are agencies getting right and wrong when attracting gen Z talent
• Changing leaders’ mindsets and discovering unexplored avenues for talent
• AI and the need for new recruitment models

09.40-10.10

Young researcher panel: Retaining your best new talent

• What’s it like to be a new research practitioner in 2025 and how it could be improved?
• Identifying the factors that encourage young researchers to stay in their first role

10.10-10.40

Round table: being a great culture leader

• Learn how to inspire, motivate and reward in a way that resonates with your team
• Feeling comfortable with culture even if you are more of a numbers person
• How to lead cultural transformation
• Managing the flashpoints for culture wars

10.40-11.10

break

11.10-12.10

Peer advisory round table discussion

• Come to the forum with a recruitment, team or culture challenge you’d like help solving. Working in small groups, delegates will select two challenges to tackle. Share ideas, hear alternative approaches and find out what’s worked for others.

12.10-12.20

Wrap-up

12.30

Lunch